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59 Bishops Contributed Financially to Maine Bishop's Effort to Oppose Maine Same-Sex "Marriage" Law
Remarkable. I do find it pretty nauseating that they talk about how much they've "suffered" for the cause of "doing battle with same-sex 'marriage' advocates." (Note the quotation marks around "marriage.") I have a hard time mustering up too much sympathy for that kind of "suffering."
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Malone said that he was grateful for his fellow Catholic bishops "prayer, encouragement, and financial support" and sharing the suffering that now comes with the territory of doing battle with same-sex "marriage" advocates.
Christian registrar should not be disciplined over same-sex marriage refusal - Telegraph
From the UK: a clerk who refused to solemnize a same-sex marriage is claiming that her refusal to do so -- which she says stems from her religious beliefs -- is protected under freedom-of-conscience laws. She is suing her employer, the Islington Council, for religious discrimination, and she "claims she suffered ridicule and bullying as a result of her stance and said she had been harassed ... by the council."
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James Dingemans QC, representing her, told a panel of three appeal judges that
Ms Ladele had never wanted to undermine the human rights or respect due to
members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender communities.
But human rights laws must also be there to protect people with committed
views about marriage, he said. -
'Modern human rights jurisprudence was not intended to obliterate religious
beliefs held for millennia.''
Mr Dingemans said she could not go against her faith and take an active part
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At n+1 Panel, the Cat Got Douthat's Tongue on Topic of of Gay Marriage | The New York Observer
A tiny little column that opens up a really interesting issue, when conservative -- sort of -- commentator Ross Douthat admits that he opposes same-sex marriage but is "uncomfortable discussing the issue in public," mainly because he can't think of a non-religious reason for his views. Fascinating example of the way public and private discourses can collide in one individual's experience.
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At first Mr. Douthat seemed unable to get a sentence out without interrupting himself and starting over. Then he explained: "I am someone opposed to gay marriage who is deeply uncomfortable arguing the issue in public."
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Mr. Douthat indicated that he opposes gay marriage because of his religious beliefs, but that he does not like debating the issue in those terms. At one point he said that, sometimes, he feels like he should either change his mind, or simply resolve never to address the question in public.
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Mormon image suffers after gay marriage fight - Washington Times
A "kiss-in" in Utah, after same-sex couples are harrassed (and, in one case, arrested for trespassing on a plaza owned by the Church of Latter-Day Saints).
Christians Challenged to Be More Proactive in Strengthening Marriage | Christianpost.com
News article on a report from the Institute for Religion and Democracy on how the "ideal of romantic love" is ultimately destructive to traditional norms of marriage. For that matter, so is the idea that marriage is a legal contract. The whole purpose of this report is to marshal arguments against same-sex marriage, presumably. The report is here: http://bit.ly/YuWQx
Martha Nussbaum, "A Right to Marry? Same-sex Marriage and Constitutional Law," Dissent Magazine (Summer 2009)
It'll take me a while to get through this, but it'll probably be worth it...
Jon Pahl, "The Religious Violence of 'Defending Marriage'," Sightings (March 12, 2009)
A carefully reasoned but still fairly impassioned argument against the proliferation of state DOMA-style legislation (i.e., laws banning same-sex marriage). The author, a historian of Christianity, argues that these laws implicitly appeal to religious principles in very specific ways -- such as notions about purity, or obsessive concerns with exclusionary rules or with the "sanctity" of marriage, a secular institution -- which are typical of a form of "religious violence" (his term).
Steve Lopez, "Wielding religion as a weapon against gay marriage," Los Angeles Times (Oct. 21, 2008)
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